What happened in January - 2010:
Again, added additional obituaries and burial information donated by readers for several of our county cemeteries. The sources for these are, as always, our viewers and obituaries located.

Sue Langley sent in some histories and stories about the people in the late 1800 and early 1900's of Three Oaks, Michigan Region.

Brett and Leanna Hardesty also added to our knowledge by donating a lot of various photos, histories, obituaries and cemetery burials on various Antiss and associated family groups

Others have sent us dibs and dabs of this and that, along the way, which helps in the continuing growth of the Berrien County site. Try the seach engine this month to see if any of your ancestors have been added.

Previous Months Updates

What happened in November and December - 2009:
We added additional obituaries and burial information donated by readers for several of our county cemeteries. The sources for these are, as always, our viewers and obituaries located.

New data was added to our military page in mid-December. Also added to the site were more family photos both known and unknown faces of ancestors of yester-year.

New Troy and Riverside were just two of the cemeteries that we added on to in the past month. And in November; Oakgrove, South Union and Bethel had information contributed. Please keep in mind when viewing these listings, they are only small partial listings of some of the burials within these sacred grounds. Please contact us and let us know if you have additional burials of you ancestors that you would like to see placed on line in their honor.

What happened in September and October - 2009:

And we have added to our journals and several new "olden day" biographies are now ready for view.

We were happy to display some old time family photos contributed to the site.

In our school grads file, the Three Oaks graduation class of 1905 is now on site. And check out our 1910 Three Oaks Baseball squad under our "Berrien In The News - Olden Days". Pretty snazzy uniforms there.

Ellison, Kean and Warren family photos were added to our gallery of family photos.

Among the burials added for various cemeteries; several were donated for the Watervliet Cemetery.

More obituaries were added.
And we are in the process of posting 1925 Senior High classes and graduates for Benton Haror High School.

Lots of dibs and dabs have been added to the site, so stop back by often and do a search to see if some of your ancestors have been added.

Although I no longer live in Berrien County, it is very near and dear to my heart as I grew up there the first 20 years of my life. And now, living in a county next door to Berrien, I sometimes take day trips up that way and let the memories flow.

In the past several months we added 1860 township maps with resident listings, town layouts with businesses along with residentially owned properties. Maps were donated to this site by Davis 'C' Ball.
Many are done in "brown tone" to give it that old time flare.

Each Genweb host or hostess arranges resources in the manner he/she feels the most comfortable working with. But foremost and taken into consideration; is arranging data in which the researcher can locate that illusive ancestor which he might be seeking.

List of things needed for the site.

Have something news worthy, contact us at:   mailto:berrienmigenweb@yahoo.com

Goals
To collect useful information that will assist in the genealogist's search.
To make this site more user-friendly.
To help families/genealogists connect with each other.